You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic.
It is generally believed that some people are born with certain talents, for instance, for sports or music and others are not. However, it is sometimes claimed that any child can be taught to become a good sports person or musician. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples based on your knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words
MODEL ESSAY:
It is widely accepted that talents are
naturally born gifts that people possess like sports or music, whiles others
are not as gifted. However, it is often said that any child can be nurtured to
master a craft or talent such as being a good sportsperson or musician. In this
essay, I would discuss both views and give my opinion.
Firstly, the talents certain people possess
have immensely improved their game being in sports or music. It is true that
people with innate talent can not be really compared to any person not born
with it but tries to learn. Musicians like Bob Marley took the world by storm
with reggae music and his choice of
words or lyrics differentiate him from all musicians. I do not think there is a
song from him that does not spear the heart when people listen. His talent to
make such good music is incomparable and to date his songs still remain top
notch.
However, there have been circumstances
where people learned to become good sports persons or musicians who have defied
odds to become great. These people use hard work to beat talent. Proof of
importance is between the two football giants Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
For a decade both players have won the most prestigious football award, which
is the world’s best player ten times with both receiving the award five times each.
As a football fanatic I witnessed the emergence of how talented Messi is and he
has proved on several occasions how talented he is with the ball. Ronaldo
embodies the true definition of hard work and a person who liked the sports and
learned it. He has gone to- to-toe with Messi and might even surpass him.
In conclusion, I think people born with
talents do the impossible with ease but people can be taught to become successful
in a particular sports, music or profession.
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Band 8
Nsiah
Fun Facts!
The nature versus nurture debate is about the relative influence of an individual's innate attributes as opposed to the experiences from the environment one is brought up in, in determining individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. The philosophy that humans acquire all or most of their behavioral traits from "nurture" is known as tabula rasa ("blank slate").
In recent years, both types of factors have come to be recognized as playing interacting roles in development. So several modern psychologists consider the question naive and representing an outdated state of knowledge. The famous psychologist, Donald Hebb, is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "Which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "Which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?"
SOURCE: diffen.com
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